Slums have come up on lands that were owned by zamindars, owners of factories who wanted to settle their workers near the ...

The debate around Kunal Kamra's performance has ignited interest in Kolkata's comedy scene, leading to greater public ...

The Telegraph Online had earlier reported on the people living for seven decades on the sixth floor roof of Karnani Estate on ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, lives in a Kolkata slum in stark ...

After the demise of Sultana's husband, Prince Mirza Bedar Bukht, in the 1980s, she has struggled to survive and support her six children, with a pension of merely Rs 6,000 per month.

A film festival in Kolkata that has gained prominence over the years, focusing mainly on political documentaries and short fiction, will begin on March 20 and go on for four days, with screenings ...

Sultana Begum was married to Mirza Mohammad Bedar Bakht, purported to be the great-grandson of India’s last Mughal ruler. At the time of marriage in 1965, Sultana Begum was 14 years old and her ...

About 1 million people live in rickety shanties with open sewers and shared toilets in the densely populated slums, close to Mumbai's international airport. Eligible residents will be given flats of ...

Nearly 20 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at Santoshpur Railway Station’s platform number 2 on Sunday, an official said. Three fire engines soon reached the spot, and after a 90-minute ...

The locals recommended that I try paan (a popular mouth freshener in India) from a famous vendor in Kolkata. JP Paan is a popular paan shop in the busy Bara Bazaar area of Kolkata. The most ...

She was married off at the tender age of 12 and sent to stay with her husband's family in a Mumbai slum. What was supposed to be a new beginning soon became a living hell of physical and emotional ...

all the halls designated to run the films from around the world invited to Kolkata Film Festival ... skill building like better communication etc. People don’t want more information, they want a story ...